Although the Hebrew vowel system has received little attention in sociophonetic research, this paper argues that socially meaningful vocalic variation can be observed by examining the opposition between “center” and “periphery”, a prominent social distinction in Israeli society, which has also received little interest in sociolinguistic research. We analyze how this social distinction is portrayed in a corpus of parodic imitations on Instagram. The corpus consists of a series of ten comedic skits performed by popular social media influencer Eliran Hanania, which contrast characters from Tel Aviv (representing Israel’s urban “center”) and Beer Sheva (a city in the south of Israel, representing the “periphery”). The results show a clear differentiation between the vowel spaces of the Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva characters: front vowels are significantly more backed for the Tel Aviv characters. Furthermore, the Beer Sheva characters are more differentiated by gender than the Tel Aviv characters. Therefore, our findings demonstrate that vocalic variation can used as a meaningful sociolinguistic resource in Hebrew, as well as underscore the sociolinguistic relevance of the “center”-“periphery” distinction.